Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2701, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2025
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
275 King, Stephen (b. 1947)

Pet Sematary

Garden City, NY 1983 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,500.00
276 King, Stephen (b. 1947)

The Shining

Garden City, NY 1977 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,875.00
277 King, Stephen (b. 1947)

Three first editions, two signed...

New York 1985 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,125.00
278 King, Stephen (b. 1947)

Two first editions in their original jackets...

Garden City, NY 1978 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 531.00
279 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

The Years Between, with a T.L.S. tipped in

Garden City and New York 1919 USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
280 Le Carre, John (1931-2020)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, first edition

London 1963 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
281 Le Carre, John (1931-2020)

Two specially bound signed limited editions...

London 1986 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 219.00
282 Levi-Strauss, Claude (1908-2009)

Tristes Tropiques, first American edition

New York 1961 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 219.00
283 Locke, Alain, ed. (1885-1954), et alia

The New Negro

New York 1925 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
284 Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965)

Of Human Bondage, first edition

New York 1915 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
285 McKay, Claude (1889-1948)

Banana Bottom

New York 1933 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 406.00
286 Melville, Herman (1819-1891) & Rockwell Kent, illus.

Moby Dick, in an evocative binding

New York 1930 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
287 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

Lolita, two first editions

Paris 1955 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
288 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

Pale Fire, limited edition

San Francisco 1994 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 938.00
289 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

Nine first editions in twelve volumes...

New York 1947 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
290

New Masses Magazine. Twenty issues, September 1929-August 1932

New York 1929-1932 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,125.00
291 O'Hara, John (1905-1970)

Butterfield 8

New York 1935 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
292 Orwell, George (1903-1949)

Nineteen Eighty-Four, in an eye-catching binding

London 1949 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,750.00
293 Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960)

Doctor Zhivago, first English edition

London 1958 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,375.00
294 Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)

Gravity's Rainbow

New York 1973 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 813.00
295 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Two privately printed first editions...

New York 1927 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 750.00
296 Smith, William Gardner (1927-1974)

South Street

New York 1954 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 344.00
297 Toole, John Kennedy (1937-1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces

Baton Rouge, LA and London 1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,125.00
298 Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

Up From Slavery, inscribed by the author

New York 1904 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
299 Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Miscellanies

London 1908 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 125.00
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